We modeled how early human ancestors ran—and found they were surprisingly slow
Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...
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62 million years ago this mysterious mammal called Earth home
Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...
This extinct tree-dwelling mammal may be among humans’ closer relatives
Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...
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What chimp nests can tell us about early independence
A study finds that young female chimps build nests earlier and more often than males, showing early independence.
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Overview of Hominin Evolution
Like living apes it would have walked quadrupedally (on ... leading paleoanthropologists to infer that these fossils represent early members of the hominin lineage. The first human-like traits ...
How Much Meat Do Our Closest Genetic Relatives—Great Apes—Eat? A Biologist Answers
We share more than 97% of our genetic makeup with primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. But that doesn’t ...